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segregated

adjective as in divided into racial or ethnic groups

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For decades, these newly immigrated workers would be segregated into the neighborhoods surrounding the smokestack, he added, leading to the growth of a large multigenerational Mexican community.

As the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. famously said, “Eleven o’clock on Sunday morning…is the most segregated hour in America.”

From Salon

While Soliman was initially slated to remain in segregated detention for some 20 days, he was released early.

From Salon

This means that Democratic and Republican voters are segregated from each other geographically, with Democrats tending toward big cities and suburbs, and Republicans occupying rural areas.

From Salon

He said that he identified with them because of his upbringing in racially segregated Richmond in the US state of Virginia.

From BBC

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